“It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.”
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer
Letter to G.K. Chesterton (12 December 1917), quoted in Robert Speaight, The Life of Hilaire Belloc (London: Hollis & Carter, 1957), p. 355
“Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die,
And lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.”
Source: The Campaign (1704), Line 152.
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